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Never Enough Time by R.T.W. Lipkin
3.0
What if your entire life passed by in just seven days?
The story follows the 16-year-old Delaney Archer who is a teenager with all the time in her hands so she pretty much leaves everything until the last moment. She is an A' student and as every teenager hates her life. Until one morning, when she wakes up in a strange place and she is 7 years older.
Suddenly, she finds herself in graduate school. Seven years of her life have disappeared without a trace since she went to bed last night. It takes a while for Delaney to get used to things. But it’s not all bad, right? After all, she can drink alcohol now, and she’s almost finished school.
Then she wakes up the next day and another seven years have passed and then seven years and the seven years. Now she just has to figure out what’s happening before time runs out .
When i read the synopsis i thought that it was a pretty good concept. So i requested a copy from NetGalley.
Then i started reading it and i was confused. If you knew me you would know that i don't particularly like first person narratives. But there are book i love with a first person narrator, in this book though i didn't like it at first. It wasn't fun to be inside a confused mind and to try to figure out what the f* was happening. I thought many times to dnf it but the story itself made me want to continue reading it and i was hooked! It was amazing.
Firstly, Delaney had the best reactions, even though at some points she irritated me. You could imagine yourself at her shoes, running around and trying to figure out everything. She was confused and she was trying to find out what the hell was happening and she was cursing... a lot. I loved that about her. I would be cursing if i was her.
Secondly, the plot. Delaney doesn't know why see is in the path of the seven. Noone explains to her anything and they were expecting from her to to carry it out. So we see glimpses of her life and every seven years something huge has changed. She thinks that she fucked things up (when she didn't). She tries to find out why this is happening to her before she runs out of years. She meets people who knows about the path of the seven and they doesn't explain everything. She is is just running against the clock which ticks so loudly.
It was fast paced and the story flowed so smoothly. You were enjoying every bit of it.
The only thing that i didn't like was the lack of explaining. I finished the book and i still hasn't understand why she was chosen or more like how she chose it. It has so many plot holes that keeps you distracted from the main story. And the end... OH THE END! The end was nothing like what i imagined and i loved that but i also hated that... OMG
She ends up with Bennet and i loved that but nowhere indicates such thing. Well only when Lachesis said to Del that Bennet is in love with her. I was rooting for them though, maybe i subconsciously knew that something was about to happen between them.
And what about Raj? I mean he appears to be her big love and i though that he had a huge part in the story but nah nah nah. Except you think that the huge part in the story is when his son marries Chloe, the daughter of Del's best friend.
And i didn't get the ending. I mean she got a new life, a good new life. But what about the years she missed? She woke up as 20something year old girl. She doesn't remember anything. She lives in her old apartment but as a tenant (i think this is the word) and the house belongs to Chloe, whom got it by Del. It is so confusing. It could be more simple. Well she ends up with Bennet and it's alright.
Oh and an other thing that pissed me off was Sarah, Del's "best friend". If my best friend came to me and told me that she lives only one day in every seven years i would be hella ok with this and i would support her even if i didn't believed that. I mean she is my friend, it is my job to support her and believe her. Sarah was only picking fights with Del, i mean come on girl, you are an awful friend.
I highly recommend it to everyone who want a fantasy novel but more in the contemporary style. To speak the truth, i thought that it would have some action (pew pew and something like this) but i wasn't. It just made me think how life pass and what if i haven't done anything great in the past 7 years. Does my old self likes my choices or she disproves them? I will never know or will i?
MY GREEK REVIEW
The story follows the 16-year-old Delaney Archer who is a teenager with all the time in her hands so she pretty much leaves everything until the last moment. She is an A' student and as every teenager hates her life. Until one morning, when she wakes up in a strange place and she is 7 years older.
Suddenly, she finds herself in graduate school. Seven years of her life have disappeared without a trace since she went to bed last night. It takes a while for Delaney to get used to things. But it’s not all bad, right? After all, she can drink alcohol now, and she’s almost finished school.
Then she wakes up the next day and another seven years have passed and then seven years and the seven years. Now she just has to figure out what’s happening before time runs out .
When i read the synopsis i thought that it was a pretty good concept. So i requested a copy from NetGalley.
Then i started reading it and i was confused. If you knew me you would know that i don't particularly like first person narratives. But there are book i love with a first person narrator, in this book though i didn't like it at first. It wasn't fun to be inside a confused mind and to try to figure out what the f* was happening. I thought many times to dnf it but the story itself made me want to continue reading it and i was hooked! It was amazing.
Firstly, Delaney had the best reactions, even though at some points she irritated me. You could imagine yourself at her shoes, running around and trying to figure out everything. She was confused and she was trying to find out what the hell was happening and she was cursing... a lot. I loved that about her. I would be cursing if i was her.
Secondly, the plot. Delaney doesn't know why see is in the path of the seven. Noone explains to her anything and they were expecting from her to to carry it out. So we see glimpses of her life and every seven years something huge has changed. She thinks that she fucked things up (when she didn't). She tries to find out why this is happening to her before she runs out of years. She meets people who knows about the path of the seven and they doesn't explain everything. She is is just running against the clock which ticks so loudly.
It was fast paced and the story flowed so smoothly. You were enjoying every bit of it.
The only thing that i didn't like was the lack of explaining. I finished the book and i still hasn't understand why she was chosen or more like how she chose it. It has so many plot holes that keeps you distracted from the main story. And the end... OH THE END! The end was nothing like what i imagined and i loved that but i also hated that... OMG
Spoiler
She ends up with Bennet and i loved that but nowhere indicates such thing. Well only when Lachesis said to Del that Bennet is in love with her. I was rooting for them though, maybe i subconsciously knew that something was about to happen between them.
And what about Raj? I mean he appears to be her big love and i though that he had a huge part in the story but nah nah nah. Except you think that the huge part in the story is when his son marries Chloe, the daughter of Del's best friend.
And i didn't get the ending. I mean she got a new life, a good new life. But what about the years she missed? She woke up as 20something year old girl. She doesn't remember anything. She lives in her old apartment but as a tenant (i think this is the word) and the house belongs to Chloe, whom got it by Del. It is so confusing. It could be more simple. Well she ends up with Bennet and it's alright.
Oh and an other thing that pissed me off was Sarah, Del's "best friend". If my best friend came to me and told me that she lives only one day in every seven years i would be hella ok with this and i would support her even if i didn't believed that. I mean she is my friend, it is my job to support her and believe her. Sarah was only picking fights with Del, i mean come on girl, you are an awful friend.
I highly recommend it to everyone who want a fantasy novel but more in the contemporary style. To speak the truth, i thought that it would have some action (pew pew and something like this) but i wasn't. It just made me think how life pass and what if i haven't done anything great in the past 7 years. Does my old self likes my choices or she disproves them? I will never know or will i?
MY GREEK REVIEW